In order to honour the significant achievements of Prof. Bert Bolin as one of the founding fathers of the IPCC and its first chairman from 1988 to 1997, the WGI Assessment report Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis will be dedicated to him. The symposium Climate Change: Bert Bolin and Beyond is organised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) The sympo­sium will also highlight new results from the Swedish science community that build upon Bert Bolin’s activities as a scien­tist and acknowledge his role as a leader and mentor.